Was India really weak ?
But by what standard and whose standards ?
How and with whom should we compare to forward the hypothesis?
With Egyptian civilisation, with Europeans, with Chinese Civilisation, with Roman Civilisation, The Greeks or with Arabs , Turks or Persians..?
Look what happened to humanity in North America ? Was not it conquered by the Europeans ?
What happened in Austrailia?
What happened in Arab, Persian and Turkish worlds after they were overrun by Islam and Islamic Conquerors ?
India withstood everything ?
The Greek onslaughts of gigantic proportions, The Islamic barbarian plunders for 2000 years, the British, Spanish , the French and Portugese plunder of 200 years......
We suffered devastation of our land, agriculture, cities, administration, education, culture, commerce trade and industry throughout these invasions.....
Indians suffered famines, draughts, enslavement brought in by these assaults ..... we lost our kingdoms.... our Armies, ... our women and children.... our universities and our craftsmen.....
But where are those conquorers today ??
We the vanquished are here only ? Why ?
Because as Pratap, the initiator of this thread who is infatuated with the marauders and their racial streaks, would like us to believe, we should commit suicide considering our past...
On the contrary, there is something else in us that makes us stand even today.... not like red Indians or aboriginals who are almost extinct ...
Not that the Muslims did not want us to perish...
Not that the British fell in love with us and did not wish to erase India of humanity as they did in Australia or North America ?
There is something in our balls that I stand even today where I do... a proud man whose ancestors were the biggest scientists, creators, mathematicians, linguists and what not and what not..... where everyone from Chinese to French to Arabians to Greeks used to visit to seek the light of the age...
They will again .... attack. We shall again defend. They will perish .. we will stand....